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POLYNEICES<br />
Bewail me not.<br />
ANTIGONE<br />
Who would not mourn<br />
<strong>The</strong>e, brother, hurrying to an open pit!<br />
POLYNEICES<br />
If I must die, I must.<br />
ANTIGONE<br />
POLYNEICES<br />
It may not be; forbear.<br />
ANTIGONE<br />
If I must lose thee.<br />
Nay, hear me plead.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n woe is me,<br />
POLYNEICES<br />
Nay, that rests with fate,<br />
Whether I live or die; but for you both<br />
I pray to heaven ye may escape all ill;<br />
For ye are blameless in the eyes <strong>of</strong> all.<br />
[Exit POLYNEICES]<br />
CHORUS<br />
(Str. 1)<br />
Ills on ills! no pause or rest!<br />
Come they from our sightless guest?<br />
Or haply now we see fulfilled<br />
What fate long time hath willed?<br />
For ne'er have I proved vain<br />
Aught that the heavenly powers ordain.<br />
Time with never sleeping eye<br />
Watches what is writ on high,<br />
Overthrowing now the great,<br />
Raising now from low estate.<br />
Hark! How the thunder rumbles! Zeus defend us!<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Children, my children! will no messenger<br />
Go summon hither <strong>The</strong>seus my best friend?<br />
ANTIGONE<br />
And wherefore, father, dost thou summon him?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
This winged thunder <strong>of</strong> the god must bear me<br />
Anon to Hades. Send and tarry not.<br />
CHORUS<br />
(Ant. 1)<br />
Hark! with louder, nearer roar<br />
<strong>The</strong> bolt <strong>of</strong> Zeus descends once more.<br />
My spirit quails and cowers: my hair
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